Monthly Archives: May 2012

Observer editorial on British economy policy

Posted on May 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Powerful piece here: The economic conditions through which Britain is living reflect a disgraceful abdication of responsibility by a government that has consigned millions of lives to unnecessary and avoidable hardship and great anxiety about their future prospects. It is … Continue reading →

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Alexandra Hall – Border Watch

Posted on May 20, 2012 by stuartelden

And via Carceral Geography (also mentioned by Peter), news that my former Durham colleague Alex Hall’s new book Border Watch is listed on the Pluto website – due out in July. Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. … Continue reading →

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Carceral Geographies

Posted on May 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Fairly new blog – Carceral Geography, run by Dominique Moran. As the name suggests it is about incarceration, prisons, confinement, immigration and detention etc. Thanks to Pete Adey for the link.

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Alain Badiou – A life in writing

Posted on May 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Piece in The Guardian on his new book on love and on his work generally.

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Tracy B. Strong – Politics Without Vision reviewed

Posted on May 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Very positive review in THES. The book – full details at the University of Chicago Press page and press release – discusses Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Vladimir Lenin, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Strong’s book Friedrich … Continue reading →

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C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary – 50th Anniversary Conference

Posted on May 18, 2012 by stuartelden

First Call for Papers C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary. 50th Anniversary Conference. University of Glasgow. Friday 10th and Saturday 11th May, 2013. Regularly cited as one of the great sports books of the twentieth century, C.L.R. James’ Beyond a Boundary … Continue reading →

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Tim Ingold on the Line

Posted on May 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Understood in a purely geometrical sense, it has length but no width at all. Fully linearized, the line is no longer the trace of a gesture but a chain of point-to-point connections. In these connections there is neither life nor movement. Linearization, … Continue reading →

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London Subterranea

Posted on May 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Stephen Walter’s London Subterranea, at the London Transport Museum’s new Mind the Map exhibition. More on this art-work here. The exhibition generally looks very interesting too.

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Folger Shakespeare e-texts

Posted on May 18, 2012 by stuartelden

The Folger Shakespeare Library, in co-operation with Simon & Schuster, is pleased to announce the release of the texts of its celebrated Folger Shakespeare Editions. The texts of the plays themselves, minus glosses, notes and interpretive material, will be available … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Waldron – inaugural Chichele Lecture

Posted on May 18, 2012 by stuartelden

“Political Political Theory” – text available here (via Clive Gamble, Thom Brooks, etc.) I am conscious that for most of this lecture I have run the terms “political theory” and “political philosophy” together: my suggestion has been that if there … Continue reading →

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